A Senior Special Assistant to
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State on Public Communications, Segun Dipe, has
stated that former governor, Ayodele Fayose must apologise to the people of the
state, for allegedly giving them poor image in the eyes of the world.
A statement he signed on Friday,
described Fayose’s four-year reign between October 2014 and October 2018 as the
worst that ever happened in Ekiti, which every discerning son and daughter must
never wish for again.
He said: “Fayose was a disaster
that happened to Ekiti. He ruled as if his reign had no expiry date. He had no
respect for the rule of law, he was the executive, the legislative and the
judiciary rolled into one, preparing the state budget, presenting it to himself
and approving it by himself.
“Though Fayose would be brought
to book, his negative vibes on the rhythm of Ekiti State would continue to
resonate for a long time and never again would such a mindless rascal be
allowed to govern a state such as Ekiti.”
Dipe recalled that the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, which is Fayose’s political party, once tendered an
unreserved apology to Nigerians for shamelessly throwing the nation into
economic mess in its sixteen harrowing years of reign and urged Fayose to also
be man enough to do the same to the people of Ekiti.
“Fayose ruled with deception. Due
to his avarice, he threw the state deep into a humongous debt of N120bn. He
didn’t do so to meet the needs of the people, but he wasted it on his personal
needs.
“Despite the huge borrowing, the
various bailouts he got directly from the federal government and the heavy
taxes he imposed on the people and their children, Fayose still refused to
honour his monthly commitment to the workers, owing them months of salary and
throwing crumbs at them once in a blue moon. Whereas he was pretending to be a
man of the people.
“Where he could not steal
directly without drawing the ire of the EFCC and other security operatives,
Fayose would come up with phoney projects, hugely inflate the contract figures
and rush to execute them in a shady manner.
“Three good examples are the
needless Fajuyi Bridge in Ado Ekiti, the new High Court, which has been
criticised as ill-conceived, ill-executed, and his much trumpeted Oja Oba
market, which he rushed to build without minding the structural defects, yet went
ahead to swindle the innocent and undiscerning people of their hard earned
money by making them pay into a fake government account for fraudulently
allocated defective stalls.
“In abject violation of the
values Ekiti holds so dear, Fayose was no respecter of age or nobility. He
would rain curses on elders and rubbish royalty, making the kings and chiefs,
who should be revered, to literarily worship him and eat from his palm.
“Fayose was the substantive
Speaker of the House of Assembly, with the elected Speaker as mere surrogate
and other lawmakers as his footstool. Any lawmaker who dared to challenge any
of his actions often had his/her wings clipped.
“Despite being richer than the
state which he governed, Fayose continued to loot and scam the people endlessly.
He baited them with false hopes, over-promising and under-delivering. He
presented himself to them as their Messiah, the immovable rock. He would rush
to the media to broadcast lies against his real or perceived enemies, to the
extent of committing treason.
“Once he declared the President
and Commander-in-Chief of the country incapacitated, another time he went on
air to tell the people of the state to shun the president who was visiting the
state. Yet another time, he went on air to declare some fake election results.
“Fayose used his power to grab
generational lands from the people, demolishing their houses and erecting
personal ones in their places. Only God can tell how many properties Fayose now
owns in Ado Ekiti.
“With all these and other sins
Fayose committed against the innocent people of Ekiti, it will amount to a
display of sheer arrogance, calling their bluff and insulting the people he
once described as stupid and ignorant, should he fail to apologise to them,
especially now that it has dawned on everyone that he was merely taking them
for a ride for four years, covering his atrocities with decoy and bravado
tactics.”
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